I often have to text a lot of people (as in, 50) simultaneously. The iPhone I'm going to get (don't even try to dissuade me ;-) will make this a very sad experience for me. What can I do? [more inside]
posted by dondiego87 on Oct 24, 2009 - 18 answers

How can I send and receive SMSs in a mobile phone blackspot? [more inside]
posted by fightorflight on Oct 20, 2009 - 6 answers

How can I back up message threads on my iPhone (3G, O2-UK) into a text file or PDF? [more inside]
posted by Biru on Oct 15, 2009 - 4 answers

How long of an SMS message can I send, if my phone is on Fido, and the recipient is on Bell? 140 characters? 160? [more inside]
posted by ImaginaryFriend on Oct 1, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there a good, free and reliable email-SMS client that allows two way communication via SMS? [more inside]
posted by spacefire on Aug 29, 2009 - 7 answers

Can I enable MMS messages on my jailbroken, unlocked original iPhone? [more inside]
posted by zackola on Aug 18, 2009 - 2 answers

1. Why won't my sms's go through 2. Any way to permanently change all my numbers to have a +1 in the front? 3. Help with roaming charges [more inside]
posted by hipersons on Aug 5, 2009 - 4 answers

How can I have Google Voice send my SMS to an instant message service such as Google talk? [more inside]
posted by jesirose on Jun 27, 2009 - 2 answers

How can I send a SMS to an email address for free? [more inside]
posted by magnoliasouth on Jun 22, 2009 - 11 answers

How can I send a text (SMS) message to a short code from my computer? [more inside]
posted by Joleta on Jun 1, 2009 - 4 answers

Why can't my friend text me? (iPhones/AT&T) [more inside]
posted by magicbus on May 14, 2009 - 11 answers

HTML question: As a complete newbie can someone tell me an easy way to send SMS messages using my account with a service provider which allows me to use a specific string to send text messages? more inside [more inside]
posted by london302 on May 3, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there a quick way to take a snippet of text from a webpage and send it as an sms? [more inside]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on May 1, 2009 - 7 answers

Does anyone know of an affordable solution to display SMS messages on an installation to the general public? Ideally a turn key lcd screen solution or similar. Appreciate any help! Adam.
posted by ashepp on Apr 29, 2009 - 5 answers

I want to obtain a US-based phone number solely for the purpose of easily (and cheaply) communicating with my American friends via SMS. A web interface (or iPhone app) to send and receive the text messages would be perfect. Does anything like this exist? [more inside]
posted by helios on Apr 27, 2009 - 13 answers

I have a macbook and I have a nokia N95 8gb. Is there any way I can type SMSs with the big keyboard?
posted by pompomtom on Mar 28, 2009 - 5 answers

Does anyone here have any experience working with SMS/Text message broadcast vendors? A client of mine is a very large membership organization (in the US, California if it matters) that is interested in beginning to use SMS to communicate with its members. But the whole scene is hard to get a handle on. [more inside]
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly on Mar 19, 2009 - 8 answers

Does anyone know of an easy site/service (something like notify.me) or Firefox extension that will send me a notification (SMS or IM preferred) when a change is made on a site? The site that I want to be notified of a change on doesn't have RSS or I'd just route it from there to IM or E-mail.
posted by debu on Feb 6, 2009 - 7 answers

Can you guide me to some SMS messaging services and monthly recurring payment systems for my new business plan? [more inside]
posted by ZackTM on Jan 28, 2009 - 4 answers

A previous thread recommended OhDontForget.com as a way of scheduling text messages to be sent to one's phone. Though the site makes reference to UK cellphone carriers, tests to my O2 phone have not worked, and the site says it is "currently only working in the US and partly in Canada". Does anyone know of a similar service that functions in the UK?
posted by skylar on Jan 6, 2009 - 6 answers

How can I follow election results on my cell phone? [more inside]
posted by Amanda B on Nov 3, 2008 - 8 answers

What online or iPhone-based tool can I use to send text messages to a bunch of people at once? A related but larger question: what online social networking tools can I use to help connect a community of not-very-geeky people who know each other in real life? [more inside]
posted by ottereroticist on Nov 2, 2008 - 16 answers

I need a group SMS service similar to this or this, any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by aburd on Oct 18, 2008 - 4 answers

I have a WinMo 6 phone and a Vista computer. How can I send SMS from the computer? [more inside]
posted by katrielalex on Oct 13, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there a way (with any IM client) to force a persistent logon for an AIM account, even when one doesn't have the sustained internet connection that would actually let one stay logged on? (In order to accept messages that will be "held" and displayed the next time one's IM client starts up?) [more inside]
posted by kalapierson on Oct 7, 2008 - 6 answers

Why won't my new BlackBerry Curve send text messages? [more inside]
posted by archimago on Sep 26, 2008 - 9 answers

Is there an easy, and free, way to send group voicemails and SMSs? [more inside]
posted by cocoagirl on Sep 19, 2008 - 10 answers

Why does my cell phone send me a text message whenever I retrieve my voice mail? [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Aug 15, 2008 - 13 answers

Do you remember a web application from 2002ish where you could join sms-based discussion groups? This was before it was feasible to have IM clients on cellphones (or at least before this was widely done), and the site I'm thinking of powered a big directory of discussion groups that one could join. For example, there were foodie groups (per city, IIRC?), politics discussions, movies, fashion. Does anyone else remember this? The site launched around the same time as dodgeball.com, and I'd love to find the name of the site or see what happened to them. [more inside]
posted by zpousman on Jul 29, 2008 - 2 answers

How can I make sure that the iPhone wakes me up when I get a text message? Is there a way to change the SMS ringtone to something louder/longer, make it repeat a few more times, or even just make it play the SMS notification sound through a pair of speakers plugged in via the headphone jack? It seems like it always plays SMS, mail, and alarm sounds through the built-in speaker. I'm looking for ways that do not involve jailbreaking my phone; I've already read about "SMSNotify" and even after the 2.0 jailbreak comes out I'd like to avoid using it if at all possible. [more inside]
posted by ckolderup on Jul 12, 2008 - 7 answers

How can I preserve / back up long sms conversations with one other person -- simply as long chunks of plain text containing entire conversations? [more inside]
posted by allterrainbrain on Jun 16, 2008 - 5 answers

I need a system to automagically remind my clients of their appointments via SMS text messaging. [more inside]
posted by goshling on May 14, 2008 - 8 answers

Wave to Text? How can I convert .wav files to text free or cheap? Vonage charges $.25 (each) to convert voicemails to text then SMS them to me. I'd like to do it for free. [more inside]
posted by TheDukeofLancaster on Apr 8, 2008 - 13 answers

How do I set up a business in Canada that charges monthly fees (or per use) to send text messages to people? [more inside]
posted by imaswinger on Apr 3, 2008 - 5 answers

I use Twitter and have direct messages sent to my phone. Any time someone send me one message, I get two SMS messages on my phone. I hate that. How can I make it stop?
posted by abbyladybug on Mar 7, 2008 - 5 answers

Mathfilter: How many text messages (SMS) will fit on a floppy disk, or a CD-ROM? Once that number is derived, how much will it cost to send or receive that many messages if a consumer pays per message (American carriers or Intl carriers would be great)? [more inside]
posted by kenneth on Mar 3, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm looking for an online system that allows us to set up a number that people can sms text to from their cell/mobile phones. It needs to work in the USA, and ideally also support RSS feeds of the messages as they come in - or some similar feed - so we can extract the received texts. Failing the live feed, we could make do with an Inbox system and periodically scrape or manually extract the messages out. Also being able to reply to the incoming messages is a bonus but not essential.
posted by influx on Feb 21, 2008 - 6 answers

I want to ditch my cell phone for a text only device. I want my wife to be able to reach me at will, but other than that, folks will just have to wait. What is the best option? [more inside]
posted by stuboo on Dec 12, 2007 - 17 answers

How are other people adding events to my non-shared Google Calendar? [more inside]
posted by Artifice_Eternity on Dec 11, 2007 - 10 answers

We'd like to build an application that can send text messages to people on various cell services. Think something like how twitter works where they give you their cell number, and then you can send messages to them. We've found an easy way to do it via e-mail if you know the service that the person is on, but I have to think there's a better way to handle this. The problem is I'm not sure what keywords to be searching on to find helpful information. Can you point me towards a breakdown of how to set something like this up or help me figure out what keywords I need to find it myself?
posted by willnot on Dec 11, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm trying to get clever and have new emails sent to my phone via SMS. I'm using gmail and a verizon phone, and trying to channel the whole operation through rssfwd.com. Issues ensue. [more inside]
posted by roygbv on Dec 8, 2007 - 5 answers

How can I make an archive of my SMS messages? In this era of network-accessible, searchable, archived, free, multi-gigabyte email storage, I'm a little miffed that my SMS storage is limited to arbitrary limit of 50 message on my phone. Lots of important things come in via SMS, and I hate how they just disappear. I get Twitters from friends, nice notes from my girlfriend, voice mail transcriptions from CallWave, business information via GOOG-411's text service... and so on. I'd like for the solution to cost as little as possible. I don't have an unlimited txt plan (I get a few hundred per month) so simply forwarding every SMS I receive and CCing every SMS I send to an email address isn't a very appealing solution as it really raises my SMS costs and takes effort. [more inside]
posted by k7lim on Nov 26, 2007 - 9 answers

My laptop crashes about 80% of the time when I pick it up or put it down, even when I'm ultra-ginger. Why? Before you cry "Disable the sudden motion sensor!" as far as I can tell, I don't think it even has one. [more inside]
posted by cocoagirl on Nov 19, 2007 - 16 answers

Do UK wireless phone providers generally permit text messaging to an e-mail address, rather than another wireless phone? [more inside]
posted by Dreama on Nov 4, 2007 - 10 answers

Internanational SMS text messaging in Korea. Is it possible to send a message from my pre paid LG-telecom phone to a user in Hong Kong or China? [more inside]
posted by sleslie on Nov 1, 2007 - 4 answers

I need to setup donations via SMS for a client, but I don't know how I can start. What companies offer this, what are the costs. Anyone knows?
posted by Leech on Oct 23, 2007 - 7 answers

What are your experiences with a UK based "SMS to email" service? [more inside]
posted by Rabulah on Oct 11, 2007 - 6 answers

How can I stop spammy, religious propoganda text messages? [more inside]
posted by Glitter Ninja on Oct 7, 2007 - 3 answers

I'm looking for a free service (in the USA) that will forward text messages or SMS to my email account. (What can I say... I'm home working on my computer far, far more often than I am out and about with my cell, and my cell gets horrible reception here at home!) Thanks for any and all help!!
posted by Misciel on Sep 30, 2007 - 3 answers

How do I send SMS messages to multiple people at once? [more inside]
posted by joelf on Sep 18, 2007 - 20 answers